Biography

Ana-Maria
Staicu is Associate
Professor in the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State
University. She completed a PhD in 2007 from University of Toronto CA,
under the supervision of Nancy
Reid. Before joining NC State in 2009,
she was a Brunel research fellow at the University of Bristol
UK and also worked with Ciprian Crainiceanu
and Ray Carroll.
Her
research interests are primarily in functional data analysis,
longitudinal data analysis, nonparametric statistics, and brain imaging
analysis. It has been applied to brain
tractography studies of MS and brain imaging studies more general,
wearable computing, animal studies, and
environmental studies. She is the recipient
of the
NSF Career Award.